LEADER 04443cam 2200613Ii 4500001 ocn936178226 003 OCoLC 005 20160329120810.0 006 m o d 007 cr bn||||||||| 008 160128s2016 ncuab obm 000 0 eng d 035 (Sirsi) o936178226 035 (OCoLC)936178226 040 ERE |beng |erda |cERE |dUtOrBLW 043 e-gx--- 049 EREE 090 D804.G4 100 1 Stimits, Megan Lynn, |eauthor. |?UNAUTHORIZED 245 10 Violent Frauen : |bmanhood and womanhood on trial for Nazi atrocities at Bergen-Belsen, 1945 / |cby Megan Lynn Stimits. 264 1 [Greenville, N.C.] : |b[East Carolina University], |c2016. 300 157 pages : |billustration, map 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 347 text file |bPDF |c1.2Mb |2rda 538 System requirements: Adobe Reader. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 502 |bM.A. |cEast Carolina University |d2016. 500 Presented to the faculty of the Department of History. 500 Advisor: Karin Zipf. 500 Title from PDF t.p. (viewed February 17, 2016). 520 3 Chaos ensued after the Second World War. Investigations of Nazi atrocities took center stage throughout Europe. Britain, France, the United States, and Russia. Each held their own war crimes tribunals in their zone of occupation. From these trials knowledge of the inner workings of the Nazi agenda as well as the day-to-day occurrences at concentration and extermination camps has been exposed. Over the years, examining history through the lens of gender has become a topic of interest. Looking back at trial records from the Second World War, historians have found that German women camp guards, also known as Aufseherinnen, participated in Nazi atrocities as Schutzstaffel (SS). At the time of the trials, prosecutors from Britain, France, and the United States had difficulty comprehending that women could commit crimes of violence extending to torture. Judge Advocate C. L. Stirling, Esq., lead prosecutor Colonel T. M. Backhouse, and the defense lawyers each had a different view of German women perpetrators. Each of their views along with their arguments on the idea of women and motherhood are examined in the trial. Although British courts brought equal indictments against German women perpetrators, the judges did not hold the women accountable for their crimes. British ideas of coverture and manliness shielded the British prosecutors from believing that women were capable of murder. Men were supposed to have characteristics of civility through strength and self-discipline. Whereas, British judges believed women were supposed to hold characteristics of submissiveness, beauty, kindness, and youthfulness. For women it seems that violence to keep order in the camp was allowed by British judges, but murder, torture, and disregard for human life was deemed as beastly. German men would spend around ten to fifteen years in prison whereas; German women who committed the same crime spent less than a year. Not only were the German men at the Belsen trial treated unfairly by the weak sentencing of German women, but also the survivors who brought forth evidence against their cruelty. In essence, the British judges allowed the German women on trial freedom from their crimes based solely on their gender. 504 Includes bibliographical references. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |=^A521532 650 0 Women Nazis. |=^A1288798 650 0 Sex discrimination. |=^A65989 650 0 War crimes |zGermany. |=^A24137 650 0 Nazis. |=^A437087 653 European history 653 Bergen-Belsen 653 Britain 653 Germany 653 Gender studies 653 Manhood 653 Womanhood 700 1 Zipf, Karin L., |d1968- |edegree supervisor. |=^A596843 710 2 East Carolina University. |bDepartment of History. |=^A636991 856 40 |zAccess via ScholarShip |uhttp://hdl.handle.net/10342/5091 949 |owjh 994 C0 |bERE 596 1 4 998 4355988